I know most of the cast members are French and likely had their voices dubbed with English, but Shelley Winters and the elderly couple who run the apartment are American. I wonder how there's a apartment being run by Americans in Paris?
How? Tons of people move to a different country and have businesses. Happens all the time.
We've met before, haven't we?
" I wonder how there's a apartment being run by Americans in Paris?"
I know they are American actors but I've always assumed they were playing French roles.
They clearly were supposed to be French. Monsieur Zy even calls Trelkovsky out for not being French. Also all the French actors were dubbed by Americans too, so the accent isn't supposed to be an indicator of where they are from.
shareThe movie is a French film and so the language of the original film is French. I watched it in French with English subtitles. I would never watch it with the actors voices dubbed in English.
But then you watched it completely dubbed in French. All the actors spoke English in the movie, only the French actors where later re-dubbed, because their accents were too strong.
shareFunny thing, most of the spoken dialogue is in english... but there are some parts in french too. its like the dialogue itself was as schizophrenic as the character.
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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.
Ironically the original movie is english spoken. You must have watched a dub.
shareCasting American actors was helpful when selling European movies internationally. In this case, I suppose Paramount Pictures insisted on having them.
The characters played by Shelley Winters, Jo Van Fleet and Melvyn Douglas are as French as Kirk Douglas’ character in Paths of Glory, or as Keith Carradine’s and Harvey Keitel’s in The Duellists. Or as Lee J. Cobb’s character in The Day of the Owl and Burt Lancaster’s in The Leopard are Italian, and so on.
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